On 28/02/07, James Cridland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you're a Virgin Radio VIP, go to *http://www.virginradio.co.uk/listen/*<http://www.virginradio.co.uk/listen/>and click the link marked "participate in our beta" (it's just under the "Listen live now" link if you're logged in). All feedback is very welcome: please use the link you'll find within the player, so issues all get logged. It goes live tomorrow! ;) If you're not a VIP and really don't want to register, please GTalk me ( james.cridland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) and I'll give you another way in. -- http://james.cridland.net/
James, Before today I'd never visited the Virgin Radio website, so thanks for drawing it, and the player to my attention. With regards to our other thread, the content is good enough for me to have white-listed it, so I'm not doing you out of any money either ;-) On having looked around, and listened to the station (something I'd not done before, and although this a beeb list, I have to say your taste in music is much better than Radio 1), I came up with an idea that's probably better suited to the commercial sector over the BBC, or perhaps a partnership. Something we're lacking in the UK is a Pandora (http://pandora.com/) like service; indeed, I had to put an American Zip code in to continue to use it, it seems there is a gap in the market for someone to fill. Although it's a little white lie I've told to carry on using Pandora (it actually makes them more money, though the rights holders might not be as happy), I'd rather use a UK based service that helped me find UK bands that I like, as it stands I've discovered some new bands, but at least one hasn't even released their album in the UK, so I had to get it shipped via Amazon (no other Music store had them; for the interested, the band is Dirtie Blonde). Anyone know of any technical reasons why we couldn't have a similar UK service? I'm reasonably sure that an established UK player could get the rights. The Beeb might be able to claim it as a public service that exposes new music, but I think a commercial player like Virgin would be just as good, and would probably get more and would be able to get away with including more US music. Anyone got any thoughts? Vijay
